Senate Appropriations Committee has put aside the controversial Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative of the Homeland Security Department (HSD).
The HSD suggested that people crossing the US borders must carry either a passport or a new form of...
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After facing hurdles during the RFID trials, the UK-based supermarket Tesco has determined to postpone the large-scale implementation of RFID technology in its various stores.
Tesco had much earlier reveled that it would deploy RFID tags and readers...
The RFID solutions providers Tagsys and Integrated Technology Group (ITG) have made a valuable contribution for the renovation work at the Alvar branch of New Orleans Public Library. The Alvar branch was completely destructed by the Hurricane Katrina...
Union Network International and UNI-Europa have written a letter to the EU Commissioner Viviane Reding about the extensive study, they conducted on the use and misuse of RFID technology.
The study finds potentiality of RFID technology in retail...
TAGSYS will assume a library RFID project in China. It will go on at the Shenzhen Library. TAGSYS will install about two million RFID tags on books, CDs, VHS tapes, patron cards and other library materials at Shenzhen Library by the end of this month....
Assa Abloy is for the first time designing a RFID-supported lock system for the hotels. The lock system is in its testing stage. Some of the European hotels have started implementing the locking systems in an experimental basis. The company plans to ...
Two US senators John Cornya (Republican) from Texas and Byron Dorgan (Democratic) of North Dakota have initiated a Caucus to form a forum to discuss all the important issues of RFID technology.
The Caucus named, as the Senate RFID Caucus will...
In an effort to protect consumer privacy while they use RFID technology, Denmark-based RFIDsec has developed World’s first series of RFID solutions or tags. The company claims these tags will protect consumer privacy. It will be available in the market...
The Pharmaceutical Industry Associations of America have supported the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) report on RFID’s use in the pharmaceutical industry.
The report entitled FDA Counterfeit Drug Task Force Report: 2006 Update, contains...
Tom Schuster has been appointed as the new CEO of Reva Systems, a major company delivering RFID network infrastructure products. The new appointment assumes significant in the wake of Reva’s urge for rapid growth in the global RFID market.
Tom...
Ingram Micro Inc. has fully acquired the assets of SymTech Nordic AS, the leading Nordic distributor of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) and point-of-sale (POS) technologies to solution providers and system integrators. The company did...
Hitachi foresees increase in the sale of RFID tags due to fall in its prices. The company predicts 180 billion yen or US$1.6 billion in increasing sales of its RFID tag operations by the end of March 2011 by pushing forward low-cost RFID tags.
Of this...
With Canadian government, reportedly extent electronic tracking program for cattle, the RFID firms especially Minnesota’s Digital Angel predicts rapid growth in its RFID tag business. The government of government of Canada has decided to check mad cow...
The Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) has selected Viisage in order to improve overall security in more than 25 Australian overseas locations around the globe. Viisage will provide its Viisage iA-thenticate Smart Chip...
Wisconsin will implement the law that bars compulsory implementation of RFID tags into humans this week. Governor James Doyle signed the legislation in May. As per the new law, no person will be allowed to force another to put a microchip implanted in...
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